About Maria
Maria Melendez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns with straightforward support. Maria speaks English and Spanish and aims to make beginning therapy less daunting for anyone reaching out.
Her style is warm and respectful. Sessions are tailored to each person rather than following a fixed script. She listens for what matters most, then works with clients on practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Maria blends several approaches to fit the problem at hand. She uses client-centered work to follow the client's pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is applied to identify unhelpful thinking and practice different responses.
Internal Family Systems helps name inner parts and improve self-relationship. Common areas she addresses include panic and social anxiety, attachment and abandonment worries, communication and control issues, and the impacts of trauma and shame. She also supports people working on self-love, forgiveness, and clarifying life purpose.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and session cost varies with location and therapist availability. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy is about following the client's lead and focusing on what the person says matters most. Online sessions let the therapist listen closely and adapt pacing and topics to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and gives practical exercises to try between sessions; this works well with video or messaging because homework and thought records can be shared quickly.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps decide whether more CBT-focused tools, inner parts work, or a client-led pace is best for a given concern.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper dialogue is helpful. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or step-by-step exercises easier to fit into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English, Spanish